FRANK LOESSER / JULE STYNE
Loesser: Guys & Dolls / Styne: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Stubby Kaye, Robert Alda, Carol Channing & Vivian Blaine / Original 1949 & 1950 Broadway Cast Recording [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Guys and Dolls premiered on Broadway in 1950, where it ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, also as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons. |
JEFFREY STOCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stock: Triumph of Love Susan Egan & F. Murray Abraham / Original Broadway Cast [ Jay / CD - released 1/Aug/1998 ] "A superb cast and a literate concept are not necessarily enough. Triumph of Love's tale of a deposed but over-educated prince regaining his kingdom and falling in love with the princess he must dethrone takes an esoteric approach that is often... |
MEREDITH WILLSON
Willson: The Unsinkable Molly Brown Tammy Grimes & Harve Presnell / Original 1960 Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel / Broadway Classics / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a 1960 musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and her wealthy... |
CY COLEMAN / NEIL DIAMOND / KANDER & EBB / RICHARD ADLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fosse Valarie Pettiford, Jane Lanier / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Fosse is a three-act musical revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse. The musical was conceived by Richard Maltby Jr., Chet Walker, and Ann Reinking. |
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Book of Mormon [ Ghostlight Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Parker and Stone have created one of the freshest original musicals in recent memory. It has tuneful songs, clever lyrics, winning characters, explosive laughs and disarmingly intimate moments." Hollywood Reporter |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Flower Drum Song Juanita Hall, Pat Suzuki, Patrick Adiarte ./ Original Broadway Cast [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 14/Mar/1999 ] Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. |
SCOTT FRANKEL
Frankel: Grey Gardens - A New Musical Matt Cavenaugh & Christine Ebersole / Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording [ P.S. Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2006 ] 'Grey Gardens' opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on February 10, 2006, and ran through April 30, 2006. Directed by Michael Greif with choreography by Jeff Calhoun, it starred Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson, and John McMartin. |
Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, Steve Gouveia, John Lloyd Young / Original Broadway Cast (US pressing)
Jersey Boys [ Rhino Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and breakup of the 1960s rock 'n' roll group The Four Seasons. The musical is... |
JOHN BUCCHINO
Bucchinio: A Catered Affair Faith Prince & Harvey Fierstein / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ PS Classics / CD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] A Catered Affair is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by John Bucchino. It is based on both the 1956 film The Catered Affair written by Gore Vidal and the original 1955 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky, set in 1953. |
Various Artists / Original Broadway Cast
Fiddler On The Roof [ Sony Classical / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] |
JULE STYNE
Styne: Hazel Flagg Helen Gallagher & Thomas Mitchell / Original Broadway Cast [ Sepia Records / CD - released 7/Jun/2006 ] Hazel Flagg is a 1953 musical, book by Ben Hecht, based on a story by James H. Street. The lyrics are by Bob Hilliard, and music by Jule Styne. The musical is based on the 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred, the primary screenwriter of which... |
RICHARD ADLER
Adler: The Pajama Game John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy / Original 1954 Broadway Cast [ Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his choreography debut.... |
BOB MERRILL
Merrill: Take Me Along Walter Pidgeon & Jackie Gleason / Original Broadway Cast [ RCA Legacy / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Take Me Along is a 1959 musical based on the 1933 Eugene O'Neill play Ah, Wilderness, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell |
JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
Bock: Fiddler on the Roof [special edition with bonus tracks] Zero Mostel, Julia Migenes & Bert Convy / Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and... |
Original Broadway Cast
A Chorus Line [ Masterworks Broadway / CD - released 2/Dec/2008 ] |
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Wicked [ Decca CD / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] Original Broadway Cast recording of Wicked, Starring Kristin Chenowith, Idina Menzel and Joel Grey. Broadway's most talked about new musical. The box office is already over $10 Million! With a score by Stephen Schwartz (Broadway's Pippin,... |
Original Broadway Cast
Original Cast: Matilda - The Musical [ RSC Enterprise / CD - released 23/Apr/2012 ] The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical based on Roald Dahl's charming 1988 book comes to life in the Original Broadway Cast recording. The cast, which features Tony nominees Bertie Carvel and Lauren Ward, makes the most of Tim Minchin's songs,... |
GEORGES BIZET / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Bizet/Hammerstein: Carmen Jones [recorded 1944] Muriel Smith & Luther Saxon / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel Records / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. |
GERSHWIN / GROFE / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / MAHLER
This is Leonard Bernstein: His Greatest Recordings Rudolf Serkin, Lukas Foss (pianos), Original Broadway Cast, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) / New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] This special edition collects the conductor-composer's 15 most celebrated original albums from the 1950s and 60s on 16 CDs. The best selection of his benchmark recordings as a conductor, composer and pianist. |
Original Broadway Cast
Tootsie [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek |